Drone footage from Norway shows killer whales using a highly coordinated and cooperative hunting technique to catch herring.

An intense marine heatwave caused ecosystem chaos, species migrations, and major fishery losses, hinting at climate change’s oceanic toll.

Two French sailors were rescued off the coast of northern Spain after their boat was rammed by orcas. They were taken safely ...

Kayleigh Nicole Grant, a pro ocean diver, detailed a very close encounter with orca whales, deeming it 'some of the best 30 ...

When the film “Free Willy” captured hearts worldwide in 1993, few viewers realized they were watching a real orca with his own remarkable story. Behind the cinematic tale of a boy helping a captive ...

When the film “Free Willy” captured hearts worldwide in 1993, few viewers realized they were watching a real orca with his own remarkable story. Behind the cinematic tale of a boy helping a captive ...

Killer whales have joined the rare club of animals that can make and use tools, for the first time being observed crafting a kind of brush out of kelp and then using it on fellow pod members.

These dolphins have orca ‘friends.’ They may have an ulterior motive. Scientists have documented what might be the first case of friendly interactions between killer whales and smaller ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd ...

Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the pilot whale calves got there and what happened to them ...

There's new hope in the J Pod of endangered Southern Resident orca whales. A new calf has arrived!